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Monday, July 22, 2013

HSF: Inspiration #15 White

Yay for another Historical Sew Fortnightly challenge complete! This challenge was the color white. Today, I'm just going to talk about the inspiration/process for this dress and then we'll get to the actual dress later this week!

Now I started muslining this dress way back in January and was planning on doing it for the Embellish challenge due at the end of February so not all of these inspirations are going to read "white" but I thought this would be a great time to finish off this UFO since it happened to be mostly white!

I kind of started this process backwards and picked my pattern first. I bought several 19-teens patterns over last Christmas break when I knew I would be going to Costume College. My draping/drafting skills are not super awesome so I really wanted to buy a pattern rather than start from scratch. I choose Pattern #8480: Ladies' Dress: Circa 1914-1915 from Past Patterns. The pattern also had options for less ruffles and simpler sleeves.

I loved this cute blue dress from 1912! It also has cute little bows! :D

Lingerie dresses were super popular during the Edwardian period. Lace is super fun.

This dress looks so much like the simpler versions of my pattern. I love the striped accents.

This dress ended up being my biggest inspiration! I love the pretty embroidery and I found this great embroidered fabric.

8 comments:

Exciting! Will you also have time to do hand work to the dress, such as embroidery? How fun to go to school for costume design! I just recently picked up a vintage sewing book and inside was some college course material. I wish I could have gone to this class:) It is so much easier when you have a teacher to help hands on.

That style with the vestee is one of my favorites. I have two dresses I started last spring using the Armistice Blouse from Folkwear as base but they both need some tweaking before they look the way I want them to. That fabric is lovely--your dress is going to be perfect.

Beautiful fabric and dress style. I really enjoyed reading about the process that lead you to deciding to create this wonderful Edwardian frock. I'm sure the finished dress is going to be absolutely gorgeous!

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